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Corporate Knights • VOLUME 19 ISSUE 4

Letters

The time is now • Open letter from business leaders calls for bold, clean and inclusive recovery

News Briefs

Where’s the beef tax?

Companies that pay fair wages weather downturn better

Carney comes home to lead ESG investing crusade

Wind and solar now power a 10th of the world, while coal smoulders

Fashion brands forced to #PayUp $20 billion in unpaid bills

More than two thirds of Canadian firms offer insufficient sick leave

Of mice and men: Could COVID spell the end of animal testing? • The vaccine race is accelerating the emergence of a new frontier in science looking at alternatives to animal modelling

Big Oil, small ambition • For all the recent talk of going net-zero, Canadian oil companies have yet to take meaningful risks

Leading while Black • We asked four of Canada’s Black corporate leaders for advice on dealing with racism in the boardroom

How to fix corporate Canada’s trickle-down approach to diversity • To ensure an inclusive corporate culture, deeper work must be done

The electric car you can’t buy or lease • Despite rock-bottom borrowing rates on gas-powered cars, automakers hike up leasing and financing rates on hard-to-find EVs

30 Under 30 • Even in the midst of the pandemic, young people are leading the push to better the world

Care package • Why we can’t recover without a thriving care economy

How to pay for a caring economy

More business schools step up on sustainability

Meet three of Canada’s top young researchers • Canada’s brightest minds on the biggest threats to our environmental, economic and social well-being

Sustainability-dedicated MBAs still the exception • University of Victoria joins posse of pioneering MBAs that are going all-in on training a new generation of leaders for a better world

The push to pump fresh air into schools • Indoor air quality was always low on the list of priorities, but COVID-19 presents an important opportunity to build healthier schools

Green recovery can build solidarity, if done right • EU offers prototype for attaching green strings to recovery plans that could unite Canadians across provincial lines

HEROES & ZEROS

Meet The Green New Bill: • For every $20 invested in a green and just recovery, GDP would grow by $307.85 over the next 10 years.